2010: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest
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#5: Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest. #6: Opposing View on The Act of Disobedience "The state-run said Vietnam had no criticism of Myanmar's decision August 11th, 2009 to place Suu Kyi under house arrest for the next 18 months, effectively barring her from elections scheduled for 2010." #7: Aung San Suu Kyi's Act "On August 26, 1988 she addressed a half million people in a rally at the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon. She had preached to these people and called for a democratic government so that the people of Burma could experience freedom. An army unit in the Irrawaddy Delta confronted her almost a year later on April 5, 1989 while she was delivering a speech for democratic freedom. The army unit had orders to aim their weapons at her during the speech waiting for the order to fire. A major had finally ordered the troops back which prevented her from being assassinated like her father. Three months later on July 20, 1989 Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest in the city of Rangoon."
Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19th, 1945 in Rangoon, the capital city of Burma. Her father Aung San was the architect of Burmas independence. Her mother, Daw Khin Kyi worked in the Externam Affairs ministry and was Myanmars ambassador to India in 1960. Sadly, Aung San Suu Kyi's father was assassinated when she was not even two years old. Aung San Suu Kyi completed her basic education in Ragoon then moved to India to complete her studies. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram college in 1964, then went on to Oxford University to complete her BA in philosophy, polotics, and economics in 1967. Some of her major accomplishments include becoming the Assistant Secretary, Advisory Commitee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. In 1972, she worked as a research officer at the Ministry of Foreign affairs. In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Myanmar to take care of her dying mother and got into the nationwide uprising for the esatblishment of democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi's first political job was joining the National League for Democracy as its secretary general.This party was pushing for political reforms in the country. Suu Kyi gave many speeches asking for freedom, democracy, and for the rest of the country to step up and help fight for these freedoms as well . On July 20, 1989 Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest along with many other political prisoners for asking her country for freedom and speaking out against the government. Just in 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi has been released after about 20 years under house arrest. http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/kyi.htmlclaire #3
1.) After spending two decades in house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi had finally been released. This video tells her story. The story behind Aung San Suu Kyi 2.)This article explains how and why Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest and how she continues to fight for her countries freedom. How one woman became the voice of her people claire #4 #9 Aung San Suu Kyi was a very trying woman. She was trying to achieve many things before she was put on house arrest. She was trying to symbolize the struggles of people in Burma. Burma had a hard time being free, so Aung San Suu Kyi was trying to help them and let the people/government know. Also, she made numerous speeches about freedom and democracy. She even made speeches about political ideas that were happening all over the country. The government didn’t agree with her tryings and decided that she should be punished. So the government put her on house arrest. megan
Aung San Suu Kyi supporters rally outside Burmese pro-democracy leader's house before her release
#12 The effect that this case had on people back then (2003), was very big! People hated the fact that she was going to jail all because she wanted to help her country out. People thought that it was totally unfair that she had to be sent to jail just for speaking out her beliefs. Today, people are still protesting about it. They also, rally and start riots. The people are still very upset about it. megan
CD rubric questions: #16 the law that I am protesting is that Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. I didn’t think this was fair. She was trying to help her people have the rights to freedom and democracy, but the government punished her. I thought that the punishment was absolutely unnecessary. She really did nothing wrong, besides protest and make speeches. Aung San Suu Kyi should be able to have freedom of speech no matter what nationality she is. I feel like they are being racial and unfair. I’m choosing to resist this quite passively because it isn’t fair to Aung San Suu Kyi, she won the Nobel peace prize, and she is getting put in jail for it! I don’t think that I am alone on this decision because a lot of news articles have been saying things about her arrest too. If I were to speak out against this, the positives would be that people would appreciate the help, but there are more negatives than positives. My peers and family would agree with me 100% because this is a very important and worthwhile. I know that for a fact that my family members would be very proud of me for standing up for something that is worth fighting for. My motivations for committing this act are that I will make sure everyone feels the way I do about all of this. My achievements that I wish to go for, are the satisfaction of being right and helping someone in need. I think that all of this will receive a load of publicity and a lot of recognition to me. This was a very rich and achieving experience. I was glad I could try to help Aung San Suu Kyi. I think on Aung San Suu Kyi’s part, breaking the law was worth it, look where she is now. megan
#11 This person, Aung San Suu Kyi, faced many punishments. In my opinion, her act was nothing terrible, she was just using her freedom of speech and speaking what she believed in. Honestly, I feel bad for her. She did nothing wrong, and yet, still got punished for it. That makes me a little mad. She went to jail and then got out, and then was put back in multiple times. It’s just sickening to know that she couldn’t share her opinion with people, without being put in jail. Aung San Suu Kyi, was a very nice women, who just tried to tell people what she believed in.
#10 Thoreau’s essay was about your rights and obligation to follow your own conscious. And for Aung San Suu Kyi, she just listened to her own conscious, which in the end got her in trouble. I agree with Thoreau’s essay because that’s how the world should work. You should not get in trouble for something you strongly believe in. Thoreau’s essay also talked about how people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a choice to avoid allowing such problems to enable the government to make them the people of injustice.
#13 Many countries through North America, South America, Europe, and Asia were affected all of these years by the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. Even the UN demanded her release in mid-2007. http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=1282
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2010: Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest
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#5:
Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest.
#6:
Opposing View on The Act of Disobedience
"The state-run said Vietnam had no criticism of Myanmar's decision August 11th, 2009 to place Suu Kyi under house arrest for the next 18 months, effectively barring her from elections scheduled for 2010."
#7:
Aung San Suu Kyi's Act
"On August 26, 1988 she addressed a half million people in a rally at the famous Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon. She had preached to these people and called for a democratic government so that the people of Burma could experience freedom. An army unit in the Irrawaddy Delta confronted her almost a year later on April 5, 1989 while she was delivering a speech for democratic freedom. The army unit had orders to aim their weapons at her during the speech waiting for the order to fire. A major had finally ordered the troops back which prevented her from being assassinated like her father. Three months later on July 20, 1989 Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest in the city of Rangoon."
#8
Aung San Suu Kyi was said to have broken her house arrest, by contuining to breach to people. She was also said to resist and deny the fact of ever breaking her house arrest.
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs07/NCGUB_Trial_Update27-28-May.pdf
A time line/ biography of Aung Sann Suu Kyi's life from 1942 to 1995.
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1991/kyi-bio.html #1 Claire
Aung San Suu Kyi - free slideshow maker
Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19th, 1945 in Rangoon, the capital city of Burma. Her father Aung San was the architect of Burmas independence. Her mother, Daw Khin Kyi worked in the Externam Affairs ministry and was Myanmars ambassador to India in 1960. Sadly, Aung San Suu Kyi's father was assassinated when she was not even two years old. Aung San Suu Kyi completed her basic education in Ragoon then moved to India to complete her studies. She graduated from Lady Shri Ram college in 1964, then went on to Oxford University to complete her BA in philosophy, polotics, and economics in 1967. Some of her major accomplishments include becoming the Assistant Secretary, Advisory Commitee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions. In 1972, she worked as a research officer at the Ministry of Foreign affairs. In 1988, Aung San Suu Kyi returned to Myanmar to take care of her dying mother and got into the nationwide uprising for the esatblishment of democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi's first political job was joining the National League for Democracy as its secretary general.This party was pushing for political reforms in the country. Suu Kyi gave many speeches asking for freedom, democracy, and for the rest of the country to step up and help fight for these freedoms as well . On July 20, 1989 Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest along with many other political prisoners for asking her country for freedom and speaking out against the government. Just in 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi has been released after about 20 years under house arrest.
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/kyi.html claire #3
1.) After spending two decades in house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi had finally been released. This video tells her story.
The story behind Aung San Suu Kyi
2.)This article explains how and why Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest and how she continues to fight for her countries freedom.
How one woman became the voice of her people
claire #4
#9 Aung San Suu Kyi was a very trying woman. She was trying to achieve many things before she was put on house arrest. She was trying to symbolize the struggles of people in Burma. Burma had a hard time being free, so Aung San Suu Kyi was trying to help them and let the people/government know. Also, she made numerous speeches about freedom and democracy. She even made speeches about political ideas that were happening all over the country. The government didn’t agree with her tryings and decided that she should be punished. So the government put her on house arrest. megan
#12
The effect that this case had on people back then (2003), was very big! People hated the fact that she was going to jail all because she wanted to help her country out. People thought that it was totally unfair that she had to be sent to jail just for speaking out her beliefs. Today, people are still protesting about it. They also, rally and start riots. The people are still very upset about it. megan
CD rubric questions:
#16 the law that I am protesting is that Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest. I didn’t think this was fair. She was trying to help her people have the rights to freedom and democracy, but the government punished her. I thought that the punishment was absolutely unnecessary. She really did nothing wrong, besides protest and make speeches. Aung San Suu Kyi should be able to have freedom of speech no matter what nationality she is. I feel like they are being racial and unfair. I’m choosing to resist this quite passively because it isn’t fair to Aung San Suu Kyi, she won the Nobel peace prize, and she is getting put in jail for it! I don’t think that I am alone on this decision because a lot of news articles have been saying things about her arrest too. If I were to speak out against this, the positives would be that people would appreciate the help, but there are more negatives than positives. My peers and family would agree with me 100% because this is a very important and worthwhile. I know that for a fact that my family members would be very proud of me for standing up for something that is worth fighting for. My motivations for committing this act are that I will make sure everyone feels the way I do about all of this. My achievements that I wish to go for, are the satisfaction of being right and helping someone in need. I think that all of this will receive a load of publicity and a lot of recognition to me. This was a very rich and achieving experience. I was glad I could try to help Aung San Suu Kyi. I think on Aung San Suu Kyi’s part, breaking the law was worth it, look where she is now. megan
#11 This person, Aung San Suu Kyi, faced many punishments. In my opinion, her act was nothing terrible, she was just using her freedom of speech and speaking what she believed in. Honestly, I feel bad for her. She did nothing wrong, and yet, still got punished for it. That makes me a little mad. She went to jail and then got out, and then was put back in multiple times. It’s just sickening to know that she couldn’t share her opinion with people, without being put in jail. Aung San Suu Kyi, was a very nice women, who just tried to tell people what she believed in.
#10 Thoreau’s essay was about your rights and obligation to follow your own conscious. And for Aung San Suu Kyi, she just listened to her own conscious, which in the end got her in trouble. I agree with Thoreau’s essay because that’s how the world should work. You should not get in trouble for something you strongly believe in. Thoreau’s essay also talked about how people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a choice to avoid allowing such problems to enable the government to make them the people of injustice.
#13
Many countries through North America, South America, Europe, and Asia were affected all of these years by the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi. Even the UN demanded her release in mid-2007.
http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=1282
#14
Many pieces of literature, music, and film have been inspired by the house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi.
In 2000, the song "Walk on" by U2, according to Bono, was written in honor of Aung San Suu Kyi. During U2's 2009 tour, they posted on their website a link to an Aung San Suu Kyi mask that could be printed out and worn to the tour. http://www.u2.com/news/title/walk-on
In 2006, A play, "The Lady of Burma," was written by Richard Shannon, a man from the UK, and was staged in the old London Vic. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/the-lady-of-burma-the-old-vic-london-424278.html
In 2010, Aung San Suu Kyi was voted in the "50 People who Matter" article by the British magazine, New Statesman. http://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2010/09/suu-kyi-burmese-barred-burma
In 2010, a film started to go into production named "The Divided Heart," a film about the life of Aung San Suu Kyi. http://bestforfilm.com/film-news/michelle-yeoh-to-star-in-aung-san-suu-kyi-biopic/
#15
1. Who was the women who was placed under house arrest for 11 years by Burma's military government?
2. Who was the one that voted for democracy in her home country, Burma?
#16
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